Daily Words of the Buddha ~ September 21, 2014

"No Name" Lake, Glacier National Park ~ Montana USA
“No Name” Lake, Glacier National Park ~ Montana USA

Taṃ nadīhi vijānātha:
sobbhesu padaresu ca,
saṇantā yanti kusobbhā,
tuṇhīyanti mahodadhī.

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.

Sutta Nipāta 3.725

Gemstones of the Good Dhamma,
compiled and translated by Ven. S. Dhammika

 

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